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due proportion, in the facred Veffels. After which done, he shall fay; DEarly beloved in the Lord, ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and blood of our Saviour Chrift, muft confider how Saint Paul exhorteth the Corinthians diligently to try and examine themselves, before they prefume to eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith, we receive thefe holy myfteries; (for then we fpiritually eat the flesh of Chrift, and drink his blood; then we dwell in Chrift, and Christ in us; we are one with Chrift, and Christ with us :) fo is the danger great if we receive the fame unworthily. I exhort you therefore Religiously and Devoutly to difpofe your felves for this participation of the most comfortable Memorial of the Body and Blood of Chrift; to be by you received in remembrance of his meritorious Crofs and Paffion; whereby we obtain remiffion of our Sins, and are made heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven. Judge your felves, brethren, that ye be not judged of the Lord; repent you truly for

your fins paft; have a live ly and fted faft faith in Chrift our Saviour; amend

your lives, and be in perfect charity with all men: fo fhall ye be meet partakers of thefe holy myiteries. And above all things ye muft give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father, and to the Son, for the redemption of the world, by the death and paffion of our Saviour Chrift; who did humble himself even to the death upon the Crofs, for us miferable finners; who lay in darkness, and the fhadow of death, that he might make us the children of God, and exalt us to everlasting life. And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Mafter, and only Saviour Jefus Chrift, thus dying for us; and the innumerable benefits which by his precious bloodhedding he hath obtained to us; he hath inftituted and ordained holy myfteries, as pledgesof his love, and for a continual remembrance of his death, to out great and endless comfort. To him therefore, with the Father,ia the Holy Ghoft, let us give (as we are moft bounden) continual thanks, fubmitting our felves wholly to his foly will and pleafure, and

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ftudying to ferve him in true holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. A

men.

Then fhall the Priest fay to them that come to receive the holy Communion.

YE that do truly and ear

neftly repent you of your fins, and are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways; Draw near with faith, and take thefe holy myfteries to your confolation.

Then fhall the Priest say. Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Chrift faith unto all that truly turn to him.

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John faith.

If any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous; and he is the propitiation for our fins. 1. S. John 2. I. Then this Prayer for the whole Church of Christ shall be

used. ALmighty and everlasting God, who by thy holy Apoftle haft taught us to make Prayers and fupplications, and to give thanks for all men: We humbly beseech thee moft mercifully to accept our alms and oblations, and to receive these our prayers, which we offer unto thy divine Majefty; befeeching thee to infpire continually the universal Church with the fpirit of truth, unity, and concord and grant that all they that do confefs thy holy Name, may agree in the truth of thy holy Word, and live in unity and godly love. We beseech thee also to save and defend all Chriftian Kings, Princes, and Governors; and efpecially thy fervant George our King; that under him we may be godly and quietly governed; and grant unto his whole Council, and to all that are put in authority under him, that they may truly and impartially minifter Juftice, to the punishment of wickednefs and Vice, and to the maintenance of thy true Religion

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and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bifhops, Priefts and Deacons; that they may both by their life and doctrine fet forth thy true and lively Word, and rightly and duly adminifter thy holy Myfteries: And to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and especially to this Congregation here prefent; that with meek heart and due reverence they may ever hear and receive thy holy Word, truly ferving thee, in holinefs and righteoufnefs, all the days of their life. And we moft humbly befeech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and fuccour all them whoin this tranfitory life are in trouble, forrow,need, ficknefs, or any other adverfity. And especially we commend unto thy merciful goodness this congregation, which is here affembled in thy name, to celebrate the commemoration of the most precious death of thy Son. And we do here give unto thee our deyour praises and hearty thanks for the wonderful graces and virtues bestowed on all thy Saints from the beginning of the world; on the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, and Martyrs, whofe examples, O Lord, and ftedfaftnefs in thy faith,and keeping thy holy commandments, grant us to follow. We com

mend them alfo unto thy favour, O Lord, with all other thy fervants which are departed hence from us in thy true faith and fear, and do now reft in the fleep of peace. Grant unto them all, we befeech thee, thy favour, and everlasting peace; and that at the day of the general Refurrection, we, and all they which are of the myftical body of thy Son, may altogether be fet on his righthand, and hear that his moft joyful voice, Come ye bleffed Children of my Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world. Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jefus Chrift our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. After which the Priest fhall proceed, faying,

Lift up your hearts. Anfw. We lift them up unto the Lord.

Prieft. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.

Anfw. It is meet and right fo to do.

Then fhall the Prieft turn to the Lord's Table, and Say,

T is very meet, right, and

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our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks I

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unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlafting God.

Here hall follow the proper Preface, according to the time, if there be any fpecially appointed; or elfe immediately fhall follow,

THerefore

Herefore with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord moft high. Amen.

Proper Prefaces. Upon the Feast of the Nativity.

BEcaufe thou didst give Jefus Chrift thine only Son to be born for us; who by the operation of the Holy Ghoft, was made man of the fubftance of the Virgin Mary his mother, and that without fpot of fin, to make us clean from all fin. Therefore with Angels, &c.

Upon Eafter-Day.

BUT chiefly are

we

bound to praife thee for the glorious Refurrection of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord: For he is the very Pafchal Lamb which

was offered for us, and hath taken away the fin of the world; who by his death hath destroyed death, and by his rifing to life again, hath reftored to us everlafting life. Therefore with Angels, &c.

Upon Afcenfion-Day. Through thy moft dearly beloved Son Jefus Chrift our Lord, who after his moft glorious Refurrection manifeftly appeared to all his Apoftles, and in their fight afcended up into heaven to prepare a place for us; that where he is, thither we might also afcend, and reign with him in glory. Therefore with Angels, &c.

Upon Whitfunday. Through Jefus Chriftour Lord; according to whofe moft true promife, the Holy Ghoft came down, as at this time from heaven, with a fudden great found, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apoftles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth; giving them both the gift of divers languages, and alfo boldness with fervent zeal conftantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations; whereby we have been brought out of darknefs and error into the clear

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Then fhall the Prieft fay, in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion, this Prayer following. W

E do not prefume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trufting in our own righteoufnefs, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy fo much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the fame Lord, whofe property is always to have mercy. Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the Hesh of thy dear Son Jefus Chrift, and to drink his blood, that our finful bodies may be made clean by his

body, and our fouls washed thro' his moft precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

When the Priest, ftanding before the Table, bath fo ordered the Bread, Wine and Water, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the People, and take the Cup into his bands, he fhall fay the Prayer of Confecration, as followeth.

ALmighty God, our hea

venly Father, who of thy tender mercy didft give thine only Son Jefus Chrift to fuffer death upon the Crofs for our redemption; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and fufficient facrifice, oblation, and atonement for the fins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death, until his coming again; Hear us, O moft merciful Father, we moft humbly befeech thee: And with thy holy Spirit and Word, vouchfafe to blefs and fanctify thefe thy Gifts, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy moft dearly beloved Son Jefus Chrift: Who in the fame night that he I 2

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